Toronto taxpayers have spent roughly $1.3 million dollars so far in 2024 to pay the salaries of 31 suspended Toronto police officers, according to an exclusive database compiled by CBC News that surveyed reports about hundreds of Ontario police officers who were sent home with pay after being accused of misconduct or breaking the law.

The investigation collected publicly available information about officers across 44 police departments, including the Toronto Police Service.

The Toronto police suspensions are related to a wide variety of allegations including gender-based violence, impaired driving, fraud, racial discrimination and drugs charges. The majority of officers were criminally charged.

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    The Toronto police suspensions are related to a wide variety of allegations including gender-based violence, impaired driving, fraud, racial discrimination and drugs charges.

    CBC News’s data reveals that, between January 2013 and April 2024, 119 officers working for the Toronto Police Service were suspended a total of 130 times — some more than once.

    According to earlier CBC News coverage, Floria’s earliest suspension was in 2007, when he was accused by his employer of blocking a kidnapping investigation and using his position to aid a criminal organization.

    Patrick Watson, a University of Toronto criminology and sociolegal professor specializing in police service accountability, says more transparency around suspensions is as important as changes to the pay issue.

    In compiling this database, CBC News found that most police departments do not systematically publish information on suspended officers and, when they did, the notices were only archived for a few months.

    TPS spokesperson Stephanie Sayer, not weighing in on the strength or weakness of the legislation, said that the act only allows for the ability to suspend a member without pay in “very rare circumstances.”

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